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Former football coach sues UBCby Alex Dimson

Former UBC assistant football coachNoel Campbell Thorpe is suing theuniversity, alleging that he waswrongfully dismissed by UBC lastspring.

In a statement of claim filed inthe BC Supreme Court last week,Thorpe—who was defensive coordi-nator of the football team last sea-son—alleges that on April 6 of thisyear, Director of Athletics RobertPhilip fired him 'without anynotice' and 'without just cause.'

In the court documents, Thorpeclaims to have had a two-year con-tract with UBC, which would haveended on November 30, 2001. As aresult, Thorpe maintains that UBChas broken its contract with him,and he is now suing the universityfor damages.

Philip declined to comment onthe matter, but indicated that he hasyet to file his statements about thesituation.

Bruce Mason of UBC publicaffairs said that no UBC officials willcomment on the lawsuit at this time.

In addition, the statement saidthat Thorpe suffered 'embarrass-ment and distress' because of apress release issued by UBC on April

10 which indicated that Thorpe hadvoluntarily resigned from his posi-tion with UBC Football.

Thorpe's lawyer, Milan Uzelac,said that one of the major factorsthat contributed to Thorpe's deci-sion to file the lawsuit was mediacoverage at the time of his resigia-lion.

'It was a subject matter of somepress coverage at the time...that hewas unhappy with what had takenplace and was going to pursue whatrecourse he saw fit'

The court statement asserts thatcurrent football head coach JayPrepchuk 'published to the mediawords falsely alleging that [Thorpe}had voluntarily relinquished or quithis said employment.'

When contacted by the Ubyssey,Prepchuk declined to comment ,onthe matter.

Uzelac said that he expectsThorpe's case to be heard before thecourt sometime next year.

This was not the first time thatThorpe's name has been in the spot-light

In March 1999, Thorpe suffereda broken nose and two broken ribsin a fight with then UBC footballHead Coach Dave Johnston andAssistant Coach Stu Masi.

Microsoft deal?UBC a partner in online project

by Alex Dimson

An international group of universi-ties—including UBC—is on the vergeof announcing a major big-businesspartnership, possibly, according to aUBC professor, with Microsoft.

Chris Robinson, the director ofthe Melbourne, Australia-basedUniversitas 21—an international con-sortium of 16 universities—told theUbysseylast Thursday that he expectsto announce a major deal with a com-pany 'people have definitly heard orwithin two weeks.

Roger Boshier, a UBC Professor ofAdult Education who specialises inWeb learning and education, claimsthat the deal will be with Microsoft—a multi-billion, dollar multinationalcomputer company.

According to Brochier, thearrangement was discussed at ameeting Universitas 21 held lastweek, in Glasglow, Scotland.

The meeting was attended by atleast two UBC officials—Dean ofEducation Robert Tierney andAssociate Dean of Education JonShapiro.

Shapiro did confirm that heattended the meeting, but declined tocomment on the nature of the meet-ing, referring the matter to Tierney,who could not be reached for com-ment by press time.

A Microsoft spokesperson alsodeclined to comment on the issue,stating it was Microsoft's policy not toComment on rumours.

Anita Zaekner, BC Chairperson ofthe Canadian Federation of Students,who had not heard of the potentialMicrosoft deal before contacted by

the Ubyssey, said that such anarrangement could have a potentiallydangerous influence on universitycurriculum.

'It also helps to develop the clearinterest multinational corporationslike Microsoft want to have in playinga role in higher-education,' sheadded.

Robinson, however, said there aremore immediate threats to post-sec-ondary institutions than the potentialdangers of corporatisation.

'Universities across the globe arefacing the same problems, they arereceiving less money even as theirdemands for enrollment go up. Inessence they are being asked to domore, with less,' he said.

Robinson added that an alliancewith a large corporation could offerfinancial rewards that are 'potential-ly quite large' and would be distrib-uted evenly to all the member uni-versities.

The new deal may be in additionto, but also could replace a tentativefor-profit arrangement betweenUniversitas 21 and media mogulRupert Murdoch's Newscorp—a $40-billion multinational corporation thatowns newspapers and television net-works around the world.

Robinson said that whileUniversitas 21 had signed a memo-randum of understanding withNewscorp in May, the contract wasnot binding and the organisation hascontinued to look for other arrange-ments. - -

The agreement would have seenUniversitas 21 accredit the courses

see "Microsoft" on page 16

Two Museum of Anthropology (MOA)employees are concerned about theefficiency of UBC's payroll systemafter roughly 200 UBC employees didnot receive their paycheques asscheduled last Friday.

Scott Milne, a recent UBC gradu-ate who currently works in the muse-um's design department, and HelenOrkar, an English student who is aMOA giftshop employee, were told bythe payroll department on Friday thatthey would have to wait until today toreceive their pay.

'To me that was unacceptable,'Milne said, adding that he hasencountered similar problems in thepast

'I need these cheques becauseI'm living paycheque to paycheque atthis point'

Jeff Garrad, the manager of UBCPayroll, said that his department hasbeen facing a particularly busy peri-od during the past two weeks becauseof the huge volume of new employeeshired by the university in September.

'This time of year, a large numberof students come on staff payroll,' he

said, adding that this scenario occursat the beginning of each term.

According to Garrad, employeeslike Milne and Orkar did not receivepaycheques last week because theproper paperwork had not been sub-mitted by MOA officials by the Tues-day deadline.

But Milne said his supervisor, theMOA's Accounts and Shop WholesaleManager Salma Mawalni, had sub-milted the proper employmentpaperwork and payroll hours inAugust, well before the deadline.

Orkar, who was in a similar situa-tion, agreed.

'We're students, it's not like wehave humongous savings.. Xouexpect your paycheque,' she said.It's very inconvenient for them to do

But Garrad maintains that hisdepartment did not receive thepaperwork that extended theirappointments, although he acknowl-edged that the paperwork may havebeen lost or misplaced.

'People do make mistakes all overthe place, so it's not blameworthy onanyone's part,' said Garrad.

After Mawani confirmed the

employee status and work hours forMilne and Orkar, Garrad issuedthem pay advances, which coveredroughly 65 per cent of the pay owedto both individuals.

'If people come in and say, 'I needa cheque now—I can't wait until nextweek,' our first response has to be weneed to pay everybody at the sametime,' said Garrad, who added thatbecause of Milne and Orkar's "verydire need over the long weekend,' heissued them the pay advances.

'And our goal of course is to getpeople their money,' said Garrad.UBC Payroll will be issuing theremaining paycheques by today,added Garrad.

Milne and Orkar spent severalhours on Friday afternoon dealingwith the situation.

'Their system—I don't know howit works but it just seemed really inef-ficient,' lamented Milne.

But Garrad defended his depart-ment, saying that issuing paychequeson time depends on other adminis-tration providing proper notificationof hiring and work hours,

'We're really the last link in thechain,' he said. •

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Campus groups may soon be forcedto tap their creative energies to comeup with new code words when theyadvertise licensed events, thanks to arecent revision of the university'sliquor policy.

According to UBC's recentlyrevised liquor policy, 'alcohol maynot be an inducement to attend and,in promotion of the event, no indica-tion may be made to the availabilityof alcohol at the event, e.g.termssuch as Bzzr Garden, Wine andCheese, etc. are prohibited.'

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At issue is whether using 'bzzr' isinterpreted as advertising alcohol.BC's Liquor Control and LicensingAct states that no one can post a signthat 'names, represents, describesor refers to liquor except as providedby the regulations.'

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Landmines a legacyby Cynthia Lee rapidly. And so you've got landmines involve the use of mines by sub-state

that are strewn all the way across groups that do not observe these'Bosnia,' said Allen Sens, a lecturer in legal provisions, 'so what happens isUBC's department of political sci- that they become a humanitarianence, who said that while main roads catastrophe around the world withhave been de-mined, major prob- civilians the primary victims of land-lems still exist throughout the coun- mines,' said Sens.tryside. This reality about landmines is

Sens said he is aware of figures what compelled Sharma to becomethat place roughly one to 1.5 million involved with the cause.landmines in Bosnia, but he added was just horrified to learn thatthat estimates vary widely as a result every 22 minutes, someone some-of poor record-keeping during the where in the world is killed by a land-war and the' difficulty of estimating mine,' lamented Sharma.the size and density of landmine 'People did not understand thatfields. after conflicts are over, landmines

'Mines, of course, for the . most are left in the ground and they do notpart are not visible, so until you actu- hurt soldiers, they hurt civilians.ally go and search for them, dig them They hurt children.'up, or blow them up on site, you real- Sharma added that these con-ly don't have a good sense of the cerns about landmines are nom-numbers,' explained Sens. pounded by the difficulties encciun-

Since World War I, Sens said that tered in the humanitarian de-miningmany countries have considered process intended to allow civilians tolandmines useful for defending fixed return to their communities after asites, installations, fences and bor- military conflict without fear.ders. 'Humanitarian de-mining is a

He added that while landmines very, very time-consuming. labori-are particularly cost-effective ous, and dangerous work,' she said.weapons—ranging from $15 to $200 The process involves one de-to build—their use is also governed miner crouching in a specificby an international law stipulating marked-off area using a metal detec-that any state deploying landmines tor to search for mines. If the detec-must mark minefields and keep tor sounds, a second de-miner prodsrecords of the location and number the suspected area with a stick. Aof landmines. mine will be detonated in the case

Internal civil wars, however, that it is found."In order to ensure that an area is

100 per cent safe for civilians toreturn to it, de-miners have to goover the ground inch by inch'

Public awareness of landminesincreased in 1997 with the signingof the Ottawa Treaty, a 121-signatory

policy are required by law, and said international treaty to ban land-the policy changes are not thatimportant

'The University and the RCMPare more concerned about peopleover-consuming and getting sick ordoing some damage to themselvesor somebody else. Those are theissues that I think we have to be con-cerned about'

Erfan Kazemi, the Alma MaterSociety's vice-president of universityaffairs, called the change silly. 'It'sjust the changing of a name [and]students will just come up with anew code,' he said.

Kazemi said that he doesn't thinkthe new policy 'will change theatmosphere or the culture [of UBC].If it's not 'Bzzr' it's going to be calledsomething different' He noted thatthe AMS will abide by the changebecause the revised policy isrequired by law.

Hugh Turner, the social coordina-tor for the EngineeringUndergraduate Society (EUS) , saysthat people will still attend EUSevents. 'We will just continue tocome up with different spellings ofbeer,' he joked.

The Science Undergraduate'sSociety's social coordinator,Katherine Scotton, thinks that thechange will make advertising func-tions difficult

"What are you going to adver-tise—just 'gardens?"

Kazemi expressed concern aboutstudents who do not wish to beinvolved in drinking will not haveany warning if an event will involvealcohol until they are actually there,a consideration that he does notbelieve has been addressed.

But despite the change to the pol-icy, Kazemi noted that neither theuniversity nor the RCMP, whichenforces BC's liquor policy, hasasked anyone to take down posterswith 'Bzzr' on them..3

SHARMA: be-mining is time-consuming work. CYNTHIA LEE PHOTO

Iraq, Iran, and Libya among thecountries that have not signed or rat-ified the landmines treaty and con-tinue to export the weapons.

'If it's not observed, the treaty hasvery little in it that can actually pun-ish countries and then substateactors who actually employ theweapons,' said Sens.

Sharma also said she hopes thatthe movement to ban landmineswon't stop with the Ottawa Treaty.

"I don't want the landmine issueto have been the past 'hot issue,—said Sharma.

'This issue still needs to be keptat the forefront because people arestill dying all over the world,'

Nisha Sharma reminded herselfrepeatedly last week that when she istravelling to Bosnia-Herzegovina thismonth, she has to be careful not towalk, off any roads during her travels.

'I keep telling myself, 'Do notstep off the roads. Do not step on thegrass,' said the recent UBC sociolo-gy graduate, who is one of five peo-ple making a two-week trip to thelandmine-ridden country.

Sharma left for Bosnia onMonday to visit de-Training opera-tions and to observe victim assis-tance and mine awareness programsin Sarajevo, Tuzla, Bihac, andMostar.

"We take it for granted here.. Wewalk wherever we want and we don'thave to worry about stepping on amine,' said Sharma, who is travelingon behalf of the Canadian YouthMine Action Ambassador Program, ajoint initiative of the CanadianDepartment of Foreign Affairs,Mines Action Canada and theCanadian Red Cross.

Landmines are a legacy of thecivil war that plagued Bosnia duringthe 1990s, which left an estimated30,000 minefields in the country, ofwhich only 18,000 have been identi-fied.

'The war was such that the frontlines moved back and forth quite

BC alcohol lawsapply to UBC too

mines.According to Sharma, the treaty

has had an enormous impact on theuse of landmines around the world.

'There are fewer mine victims insome of the most mine-affected coun-tries. The number of countries pro-ducing [mines] has dropped dramati-cally. Trade of landmines has virtuallystopped around the world,' she said.

Sens agreed that the OttawaTreaty is a notable achievementbecause it set an international norm,but he acknowledged the treaty's lim-itations.

Sens said that enforcing thetreaty, like most international laws,is a serious issue. He named China,

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Museum'- of Anthropology

curator PaPseS..::aWayIas:Impl.ost another of its great professors t week when.

Halpin, an associate professor of anthropologyand northwest-coast curator at the Museum of'Anthropology, passed away.

Halpin. who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of63...had been with the museum since its. inception.

Kerati Krug, who is in charge of, :...Research and Evaluation at theznuseuo said that Halpin was pas-sionate about northwest coast FirstNations art, and was very brilliant.

Slur had a mind that- was justOtttatandlng. it waS exciting to benear i her, she was a fabulousteather...when she got rolling youjust stood back and marveled at hercapacity for language and her knowl-edge ... She was quite an amazing woman.'

Krtig,. who was formerly a graduate student ofIralpi4 said that Halpin inspired her students and wasa Very iinportant part of the museum.

'She was the senior person. To lose her was to losean aFicho..".

UBC plans celebration tocomm.emeratelVlichneI Smithittzhile the exact details have yet to be determined. UBCis planning to hold a celebration of the life of its for-

mer Nobel laureate, Michael Smith.• who was a cancer

researcher and a UBC biochemistryprofeSsor, passed away lastWednesday after a two-year battlewith leukemia.

UBC's Manager of Ceremoniesand Events . Eilis Courtney said sheis aiming for the last week inOctober for a ceremony.

'Because of his profile we wouldlike to give people from the east some time so they canmake their ,,vay nut here.'

Courtney says she hopes to have the detailsresolved by the end of this week

4 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2000 NEWS "THE UBYSSEY

by Alden S. Enns

Protesters set ablaze a Canadianflag as they stood outside aVancouver hotel where PrimeMinister Jean Chretien was enter-taining dinner guests at a fundrais-ing event last Thursday night.

Around 150 people—amongthem students, women's groupsand Native youth—gathered outsidethe four-star Westin Bayshore Hotel,which hosted the $400-a-plate din-ner which raised roughly $500,000for the Liberal Party. •

Unlike a similar protest dubbed'the Riot at the Hyatt'—which washeld outside of a Liberal Party fund-raiser at the Hyatt Hotel in 1998—the demonstration took place with-out physical violence.

Garth Mullins, an organiser forthe Jean Chretien WelcomingCommittee—a coalition of groupsassociated with the protest—stoodon the street 50 metres from thehotel, which was cordoned-off withpolice tape and fencing and guard-ed by at least 100 police officerswith barking dogs, mounted police,idling motorcycles, patrol cars andbikes.

'We're here to build links. We'rehere to build a movement. A global-isation of resistance!' Mullinsyelled into the glare of televisioncameras and the chorus of taperecorders.

Mullins, a UBC doctoral studentin sociology, expressed concernsthat the government may be placingthe interests of corporationsbefore citizens throughCanada's involvement in freetrade.

Mullins said the coalitionwould like Canada to halt fur-ther involvement in freetrade until it consults withCanadians about the issue.He called for the cancellationof the Summit of theAmericas to be held inQuebec City next April. At thetop of the Summit's agenda isincreasing trade liberalisa-tion through the Free TradeArea of the Americas (FTAA).

Towards the end of theprotest, two individualspoured lighter fluid on a largeCanadian flag and set fire to the flagwith a cigarette lighter as mediacameras caught the image.

The biggest scuffle involvedunhappy demonstrators who were

Chretien protestedLiberal party fundraiser provokes riotless protest

trying to listen to protest speechesbut were crowded out by membersof the media.

Vancouver Police Departmentspokeswoman Anne Drennan saidthe police prepared for the protestwith a lull-operational plan.'

She declined to provide the num-

ber of police officers at the event,but she did add, 'it's pretty fair tosay that there are more police andmedia here than protesters.'

Among the additional concernsvoiced by protesters were abortion

rights, the treatment of Native peo-ples, and the detainment of Chineserefugees in Canada.' Christine, a UBC student, who is

a member of Medical Students forChoice and is studying to be a doc-tor, said that she would likeChretien to ensure that she, her

family, and her patients willbe safe 'when I do provide[abortion] services in thefuture.'

Referring to recent con-frontations over fishingrights in Burnt Church, NewBrunswick, several peopleattending the protest saidthey were showing their soli-darity with the Native fishers.

In addition, Rita Wong, aSimon Fraser University stu-dent, said she came to theprotest to demonstrate hersupport for a number ofChinese refugee women whohave been jailed in PrinceGeorge. The women have

been in prison for the past I4months and began a hunger strikeon October 2.

'They're asking Canadians toopen their hearts and let themstay,' said Wong..

"We're here to buildlinks. We're here tobuild a movement. Aglobalisation ofresistance!"

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Eight found guilty in Elaho protestsby Christopher Bolster

BC Bureau Chief

VANCOUVER (CUP)—Environmen-talists are condemning a BCSupreme Court decision that foundeight people guilty of charges relatedto logging protests in the Elaho Val-ley.

In September, after 43 days oftestimony, 19 witnesses, and 15videotapes, Justice Glen Parrettfound eight people guilty of civil andcriminal contempt of court

The 72-page transcript of the jus-tice's decision was released lastWednesday, sparking anger in theenvironmental community.

'I found Justice Parrett's asser-tion that the environmental protest-ers were trying to get Interfor'sworkers to overreact and beat themup, to be particularly offensive and

distasteful,' said Joe Foy, director ofthe Western Canada WildernessCommittee.

In his judgment, Parrett said 'thethoughtful approach and dedicationof the protesters is, in my respectfulview, carefully orchestrated and cal-culated to frustrate and provokereactions from forestry workers forthe express purpose of using thosereactions against the forestry com-pany and its workers.'

Foy called these conclusionsoutrageous.

'Such comments from the benchwould never be tolerated regardingrace or sexual assaults. They incitedisrespect for the courts.'

Parrett convicted two people—Dennis Porter and Rick McCallion-of civil contempt of court The othersix—Barney Kearn, ChristopherNolan, Christopher Keats, Reasha

Wolfe, Justine Paine and BettyKrawczyk—were convicted of crimi-nal contempt of court for violating aBC Supreme Court injunctionagainst interfering with legal log-ging operations 170 kilometresnorth of Vancouver.

Krawczyk and Kearn receivedone-year sentences with no time offfor good behaviour.

'These sentences are moresevere than armed robbery or rape,'says Bryce Gilroy-Scott of Friends ofthe Elaho. 'These one-year sen-tences without time off for goodbehaviour, are really more likethree-year sentences.'

Wolfe was sentenced to threemonths, and Nolan and Paine to twomonths, while Keats received, forcompassionate reasons, a suspend-ed sentence with one-year proba-tion. McCallion and Porter will be

sentenced after an Appeals CourtCase regarding earlier convictions ofElaho protesters is heard.

Environmental groups have longcampaigned for the Elaho to be partof a national park called theStoltmann Wilderness.

Vancouver-based InternationalForest Products (Interfor) is licensedby the provincial government to login the Elaho and had obtained sev-eral court injunctions to try to pre-vent protesters from interferingwith its work. This has not deterreddozens of people from demonstrat-ing their opposition.

Police are permanently stationedin the forest, which is also patrolledby Interfor security guards. Therehave been numerous arrests andviolent confrontations between log-gers and protesters in the last twoyears.

Keith Rush, general manager ofInterfor's South Coast operations,said that he was mildly surprised bythe severity of some of the sentenceshanded down in September.

Rush said that due public processhad already taken , place during theprovincial government's land useplanning and protected areasstrategy, which led to theClendenning watershed being pro-tected as a park.

'The Clendenning watershed is ahuge area of trees far superior tothose in the Elaho. The groups stilldisputing our work opted out of thepublic process.'

Rush said that he doubtedwhether the jail terms would winmore public sympathy for the pro-testers.

think that the public wantspeace in the woods.' •*

Alliance Party platform attackedby Darren Stewart

Ottawa Bureau Chief

OTTAWA (CUP)—Critics of the CanadianAlliance claim that the party is ignoring recentpolls that suggest strong environmental initia-tives could capture a few extra votes this fall.

The official opposition unveiled its new plat-form last night in anticipation of an upcomingfederal election, but there was little mention ofthe environment.

Angela Rickman, deputy director of theSierra Club of Canada, said that the Allianceplatform held no surprises, given that the partyis known for advocating tax reform and tradi-tional conservative values.

'What do you expect from a guy who showsup on a jet-ski?' she said of Alliance leaderStockwell Day, who recently arrived at a pressconference wearing a wetsuit She said theAlliance has never made the environment a pri-ority.

Rickman added that the Sierra Club wasencouraging all parties to run campaigns with

strong environmental initiatives, especiallygiven recent reports showing that environmen-tal concerns area priority to Canadian voters.

Rahini Jaffer, official environment critic forthe Alliance party, said that the small amount ofattention the platform gave the environmentwas not a reflection of his party's commitmentto the environment

'We couldn't release a 100-page documentbecause people wouldn't read it,' he said, 'Youcan get into these technical issues but to try toexplain them in a platform would be verydifficult'

Jaffer said that the Alliance had noted theincrease in public concern and was payingmore attention than ever to the environmentHe added that he considered the Alliance'sstance on green issues to be on par with, oreven stronger than, that of other parties.

"I think that ultimately you're going to seemore pressure on all parties to consider theenvironment as an important topic, Even theLiberals, though they've talked a lot, reallyhaven't done a lot over the past seven years.

The government pays lip service and makessome money available, but there's no innova-tion or vision,' he said.

Stephan Legault, executive director for theonline environmental advocacy groupWildcanada.net, gave credit to the Alliance formentioning endangered species, though hesaid that the five paragraphs they devoted togreen policy were still weak

"I'd be embarrassed to be a Liberal giventhat the Alliance's ideas [regarding endangeredspecies legislation] are stronger than theLiberals,' he said. 'But if this party wants to gov-ern the country, they bloody well better puttheir best effort forward on the environmenttheir first time out'

Still, Legault said he's doubtful that theAlliance will ever be an environmental ally.

'I don't have any faith that, if elected, thisparty will have a strong commitment to theenvironment, given their action in the house sofar.'

The Alliance platform is outlined in a docu-ment called 'A Time For Change,' and is intend-

ed to woo voters away from the governingLiberal party, who've said that they will nth acampaign based on 'traditional Canadianvalues.'

The Alliance backed away from its contro-versial plan to implement a flat tax and prom-ised more money for health care and debtreduction. It also said that it intends to cut fund-ing to Human Resources, the CBC, and regionaldevelopment, while lowering corporate taxes.

There was no mention of post-secondaryeducation in the document, though the,Alliancesaid that Canadians 'need to support programssuch as health care, education and benefits forchildren and seniors.'

The Alliance also committed itself to payingdown the federal debt to free up future fundsfor health care, infrastructure and education,and they vowed to end the 'brain drain' of grad-uates by lowering federal taxes.

A Pollara study late last month found that 84per cent of Canadians will consider the envi-ronment important when voting in the nextelection. •:*

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Women's rugby rebuildingby Laura Blue

The women's varsity rugby team is three weeks into itsseason and is starting to adjust to the loss of severalkey players.

'We lost 12 of our varsity players last year so wehave a lot of new people that we need to fill in posi-tions,' said Sabrina Celms, who is currently in her fifthyear playing for UBC.

Head coach Heather Miller also feels that the loss of12 players since last year has affected the team. 'Thatshows you how decimated we are, so we're reallybeginning from scratch again. There's a few key play-ers still here but we hai a nice coherent group last yearand a lot of them have graduated.'

But the team is not pessimistic. 'I think we'll dookay. We may not do as well as we did last year. [It's]hard to say right now. Lots of good, good athletes havecome out and it's just a matter of getting them used tohow we do things at UBC and getting them worked into

the team.'Eleanor Alesi, a returning second-year, also said, `I

totally think it's a building year...We lost a lot of vetslast year and we have a lot of work to do.' But sheadded, 'I'm very optimistic about the future.'

So far this season the team is 1-1 after beating UVICand losing to(SFU.

The team will compete with the University ofAlberta and UVIC for the Canada West Championshipson the last weekend of October in Victoria. The tourna-ment, where the three teams face each other twice,determines which team will compete at. the CIAUchampionships at Bishop's University, in Quebec, onNov. 2.

UBC was outmatched by the Pandas in last year'sCanada West championship. The Pandas went on towin the CIAU championships.

The Birds next games are in Seattle against Portlandon Oct .14, and at UBC against Seattle at 11:30am,Oct 21. •

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Turf Birds in first placeswitched from atwo-four-three for-mation to a three-three-three for-mation, bringingone of their fourmidfielders up tohelp the forwards.

T-Bird mid-fielder JenDowdeswell saidthe new patternworked well forthe team. 'Welooked to seewhat we have,and we found thatwhat we used todo doesn't workanymore. Wehave so manygood forwards sowe figured wemight as well putone more upthere.'

UBC's wealthof strength upfront showed clearly this weekendwith goals posted by Mo O'Connor,Wieske Van Zoest, Giovanna Piccone,Stephanie Quinn, and Shannonamong others. There are no obviousstars on this team, but Shannoninsists that's the reason they're sostrong.

"We play together, and we don'trely on one or two particular players.Everyone has to come out and dotheir thing. Everyone played so well

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The UBC women's field hockey teamspent a frosty Thanksgiving inEdmonton where it battled to firstplace at the Canada WestTournament #2.

In their first game against theUniversity of Calgary on Friday, thedefending CIAU champs were in topform, crushing the Dinos 4-0.

Saturday was a different story,however, as the Birds chalked up aloss—their first of the regular sea-son—at the hands of the home teamPandas, 2-1.

'We dominated the game againstAlberta but we had some trouble fin-ishing, and they scored two decentgoals on us,' said sweeper AndriaShannon.

In its final two games of the tour-nament against Manitoba andVictoria, UBC found its game againand posted two more wins, movingto first place in the Canada West bythe the end of the tournament.

For Shannon, the game againstUVic was the high point of the week-end. "They played a great game andwe did too. It was just so fun to play.It was really spread out with lots ofpassing. We played our style and weplayed it really well. We did thethings that we wanted to do, and wejust kept putting balls in the net,'she said.

The UBC team actually changedits style this weekend in an effort tomake its attack more potent. They

against UVic. Everyone put in 110per cent effort, and that's why wewon,' said Shannon.

Canada West Tournament #3, thefinal conference round robin, is intwo weeks in Vancouver. The one ortwo top teams (depending onwhether UVic, who automaticallyattend, places first or second) willthen head to Victoria for the CIAUChampionships in Victoria duringthe first weekend in November. •

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Clansmen no match for Thunderby Tom Peacock

After losing to Alberta 23-12 at home twoweeks ago, there was due concern that theThunderbirds had lost too many players toinjuries, and that they didn't have either thedepth of players off the bench or the experi-ence to contend in the post-season.

But in Saskatchewan last weekend, UBCrallied to beat the Huskies on their own fieldfor the first time since 1997. Then, on Fridaynight, for the annual Shrum Bowl against SFU,the Birds took the field with a will to win thatproved unstoppable.

And this was no one-man show—this was ateam effort The Birds showed that they haveplenty of depth off the bench, and that theiryounger players are ready and able to step up.

"We played smart, we played as a team,which we've been doing the last couple ofweeks and it's been great. Ever sinceAlberta, we've been playing hard,' said cor-nerback Simon Quinto, who had an inter-ception early in the game. The resultingfield goal put the Birds up 10-0 going intothe second quarter.

'We control our destiny right now,' JayPrepchuk said Friday night after his firstShrum Bowl victory as UBC's head coach.Arguable perhaps, but there's no question thatthe Thunderbirds were firmly in control dur-ing all four quarters of Friday's game.

UBC took to the field suitably wary of itscrosstown rivals. The defence, led by line-backer Chad Oatway who had eight tacklesduring the game, had primed itself to shutdown the run at all costs.

The Clansmen, who compete in the NAJA,play by American rules (four downs) so theirgame relies more heavily on the run. Runningbacks Marchi Gabriele and Mike Vilimek havebeen the key ingredients in Clan games so farthis season. Luckily UBC's defensive coordi-nator Jerome Erdman knew this, and hadbeen working hard with his guys all week.

"Throughout the whole game, we got themsecond and long, which we wanted todo...They were throwing the ball up, and wehad some pretty good coverage,' Quinto said.

Right from the word go, the SFU team

struggled to put togetheranything remotely resem-bling an attack, and itsdefence was scattered,leaving UBC receiverswide open downfield.

A UBC possession 10minutes into the gamesaw quarterback ShawnOlson connect with ScottRintoul to put the Birdswithin striking distanceof a first down in Clanterritory. Olson ran theball for the first down,and then running backSean Dovre blazed 28yards downfield for thefirst major of the game.

Dovre, in his secondyear playing for the Birds,ran for 70 yards and twotouchdowns during thegame. And he wasn't theonly Bird capitalising onthis mid-season opportu-nity to step up.

Steve Carter, a younghalfback who laid twohuge sacks on Clan quar-terback Steve Powell,emphasised how important the game was forall the younger players on the team.

'It was a big builder for our team. A lot ofthe guys who haven't played a lot got in there,and made some big plays. I think we can buildmomentum on this,' he explained.

One of the biggest passes of the game wasfrom back-up quarterback Rob Kenney tothird-year receiver Dan Lazarri for the Birds'second major. The score, with only minutes togo in the first halt was UBC 17-SFU 0, and itlooked like the game might be a blow-out

Then, with less than a minute left in thefirst halt SFU capitalised on its first scoringopportunity. Vilimek drove the Clan down-field to make the score 17-7.

After the half, Prepchuk, perhaps sensingthe possibility of an SFU comeback, sent vet-eran quarterback Shawn Olson back into

action. Olson, who saw more action in thisyear's Shrum Bowl than in any of his previousyears, quickly brought the Birds back down-field.

The Clan regained possession momentari-ly, but was effectively shut down by the UBCdefense. With the score this close, UBCallowed no chances. Five minutes into thehalf, after Lazard caught a 37-yard bomb fibrilOlson, Dovre ran in for his second touch-down. UBC was up 24-7.

Though the Clan would go on to score threemore times in the second half, by that timeUBC had driven their score up to 41—thepoint differential never really got closeenough to make Prepchuk and his team toonervous. The game had effectively been decid-ed in the first 10 minutes, when the Birds tookcontrol both offensively and defensively, and

shot ahead by 17 points.It was a toss-up over who would be named

game MVP: Dovre, who ran for 70 yards andtwo touchdowns, or Lazzari. In the end,Lazzari, who caught five passes for an incred-ible 182 yards and two touchdowns, got thecoveted award. One of his touchdowns cameafter he caught a short screen pass fromOlson. Lazarri turned, broke out of the melee,and blazed 83 yards dewrifield for the major.

"There was some good blocking there byIverson, Chamberlain and Beveridge,' Lazarri'said modestly after the game. "They openedup the seams for me, and I just took it andtried to outrun.' ,

Next Friday night, UBC faces the Universityof Manitoba Bisons at Thunderbird Stadiumin a battle for first place in the Canada WestKick-off is at 7pm. •

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These plays have emotional depth, unlike mostof Hollywood's hackneyed scripts. At times humor-ous, mostly serious, and always engaging, thesethree performances explore human tragedy andsuffering. They draw us into the world, of imaginarycharacters so that we may live and learn throughthem.

In the first performance, 'Love and DNA, writ-ten byJaan Kolk (who has an MM in creative writ-ing from UBC), a distraught mother recounts the

events of a car crash involving her son and hisfriend. While also ranting about the insensitivity ofthe media and the police, she tells the story weshould hear—not the one-dimensional story of asuspect guilty of a crime, but the three-dimensionalstory of her son as a human being. The fluidity ofthe monologue is apparentwhen actor Kim Searyswitches attitye, demeanor and voice, re-enactingconversations ti) th the constable, her son, and herparents. She . eastly transforms herself into herlippy son by changing, ei' intonation and accent ofher i..'oic•t and her b. y language.

In °The .. Water tad,' written by AaronBushkoiky Ca currenkIJBC _ creative writing stu-dent), a man recalls the birth of his stillborn sister.The narration, full of evocative imagery and figura-tive language, creates a sense Of immediacy. ActorTom McBeath succeeds in invoking his character'simaginary world by changing the nuances of hisspeech, performing a specific gesture, or movinghis eyes. He is so precise in his body language thatyou can actually see the path of an imaginary flybuzzing through the air, the picture of his stillbornsister, and the unsightly scene of him catching hisnaked father on top of a mistress.

In 'Brown Wasp, written by Meah Martin

creature. It hurtled through the evening relentlessly,,refusing to miss a beat, yet moving with surprisinggrace.

Katari Taiko—one of six taiko groups in theVancouver area—split Onagawa's hike sound mon-ster into three with a slightly jazzier performance.Instead of the drums of various sizes alfinelting intoone sound, Katari's drums called and answered eachother using slightly differenktones.

Both troupes did morel, than juSt-,:drum79.ey-yelled, played flutes and rang bells, andivavvrtheirbachi (large wooden sticks) while drunimirig-kn uni-fied movements.

And that was all in t e first half of the perform-.-ance. After the intermission, they performed a Itondance, complete with lion costumes and woodenmasks that had mouthes that would snap shut with aloud clap. Near the end of the night 'HanekoOdori'—a festival song to dance and pray for family

health and happiness—was performed.The members of the troupe managed to cajole a

few of the audience members to get up and dance aswell. All nine of those who did seemed to be enjoyingthemselves immensely. The baby sitting in thestroller in an aisle waved her hands in the air, wield-ing her rattle like a bachi and imitating the drum-mers on stage.

From time to time during the performance, aman and a woman would emerge from the side ofthe stage. The woman would read a speech inJapanese and the man would repeat what she said inEnglish–all in the name of bringing a bit ofJapaneseculture to the West, The audience certainly foundthis to their satisfaction, ending the evening withcheers, whistling, and a standing ovation. .3

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I remeMbersiwitching the psyche-delic coiliuteiAgraphics in Tron(okay, so I'm dating myself here)and thinking, 'Wow, this is prettycool.' These days you get bettergraphics on a Gameboy. Many yearslater, I was once again stunned bythe cutting edge morphing technolo-gy in Terminator 2. Now y can dothe same thing to your hoinN.vi eoon your PC But now I've see thenew wave of computer 0.iphit,sanimation.

In 1998, IMAX producers SteveHoban and Hugh Murray put out acall to computer animators aroundthe world for submissions thatwould be adapted to the IMAX 3Dformat They narrowed the over 250submissions down to eight selec-tions based on several criteria: howthey looked, whether they could bereadily adapted for the 3D process,and whether they were suitable forthe intended audience. The finalistsrange from the familiar—like the 3Dsequence from the Simpsons—to theobscure—Monkey Brain Sushi.

In order to give the film continu-

ity, the producers created Phig(voiced by Jenne Elfman)—the sassy,irreverent, animated host ofCyberworld. Phig takes the viewerson a tour of the facility and providessome comic relief. There is also asubplot involving some buggy soft-ware in the program—caused by atrio of code munching CyberCritters—and Phig, who tries to stopthem before they crash thesystem.

The animation would be amaz-ing in its own right, but in 3D, it'sspectacular. While all the segmentsare exceptional, I did have severalfavourites. In The Krakken, theviewer plunges into a stunninglydetailed and rendered aquatic envi-ronment. The Pet Shop Boys'Liberation, meanwhile, couldn't bemore different. This surreal piece isa cross between a Dada exhibit, anEscher diagram, and one of thosestrange dreams you have after pz-zling a twelve-pack ofJolt and study-ing for 36 hours straight Being aSirnpsons fanatic, I also enjoyed theHomers sequence, which takes on anew dimension on the big screenThe movie is also beautifully scorirtaking full advantage of the IMAX3D surround sound system.

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pages of production notes for thefourth time, I realised that any in-depth discussion of the technologywould put anyone but computer sci-ence grads to sleep. The basic ani-mation sequences are standardcomputer graphics translated forstereoscopic viewing—two imagesprojected simultaneously to mimichuman vision. The Cyber Critters,however, were created withSANDDE, a revolutionary new tech-nology (created by Intel and IMAX),where animators don 3D gogglesand draw free hand. The end-resultis characters that resemble those intraditional cell-style animation,except that they also happen to bethree-dimensional.

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ONAGAWA TAIKO FEATURING KATARI TAIKOat the Vogue TheatreOct 5, 2000 -,,,,,

iIn today's world of mass commurdcatilaaand globalnetworks that span traditional boUn aries, it hasbecome customaiy to present cross-c tural eventsin a way that is both exotic and familia . This eveningof drumming to illustrate the change of seasons andto ensure a good fishing season was just that—exotic,yet strangely familiar.

The evening started with a lone figure striking thelargest drum on stage. From that crisp, clear boom,the energy in the theatre began to grow, and didn'tdie down until the the last note had been sounded.The Sound and rhythm created by the drummersfrom the small fishing town of Onagawa, Japanseemed to take on its own mysterious form. Fromabstract, it took form as a huge spinning, whirling

(another graduate of UBC's MFA program), a mid-dle-aged lady with breast cancer seeks refuge at aspa in Saskatchewan. The story is mixed withhumour and pathos. Ac,,tress Wendy Noel's histri-onics and her overly loud hysterical voice reduceher emotional range to constantaneloclramatic anx-iety. However, there were spit.- many momentswhen she seemed to move thbudience.

What enhances the perfoktances is the inti-macy between theLct-or and the andience. Unlike amovie theatre, the intimate Festival House onGranville Island allows the actors to interact withthe audience by posing rhetorical questions andmaking direct eye contact Members of the audi-ence feel like the actors' confidantes who are toldpersonal secrets and stories..

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NECROPOLISat the Vancouver East Cultural Centreuntil Oct 14

It's the future. Mega-corporations rule the. .world and technology is akin to a religiousdeity. MOneY, Power wealth; and greed per-. . Meate society.:..

Or at least they do in Iota/ playwrightDavid MacKay's vision of the futUre. Put onby Yorick Theatre–a Vancouver based theatre society–Necropolis (which translatesas the lend of the dead') takes place, liter-ally inside a corporate tomb. The actioncentres around the theme of humanity'sself-destruction, and envisions contempo-rary society taken to an . extreme, where

.1.. everything is for sale, including people.Although he's not working with the most.

uplifting of topics, MacKay manages to create a Satirical play in which humanity'suneasy relationship with money and thefree market is explored.. It's too bad that inorder to create Necropolis, MacKay decidedto approach the subject in a way that wouldhave- worked better as a cartoon. As aresult Necropolis feels more like a twodimensional television world than a threedimensional theatrical One., The acting, thetosturning, the jokeS, and the plot are thesimplistic kind that one would expect to seein a television sitcom.

For example, with a mixture of charat-teri: ranging from a pompous and over-14earing.CEO to a socialist bike courier, theplay cannot help but rely heavily uponstereOtyPeS and a ridiculous plot Thedrama unfolds against the looming back-drop of the megalithic World Tech corpora-tiCtii, which feels suspiciously like Spacely'sSpace Sprockets " from The Jetsons. In factthe irate CEO of World Tech, Chuck FireflyII, Put$ on. aperfOrmarice sitnilaita that of

Mr. Spacely Sprocket him.self.Although the plot is a predictable story

of money, technology and corruption, thereare a few unexpected twists and turns, andthe initial premise of the play is original.But not suprisingly, the conclusion that the-atre-goers will reach is that humanity ismore important than money. In fact, noth-ing was all that surprising aboutNecropolis. -

Although the storyline is flat. the charac-ters are conventional, and the dialogue ishumdrum, Necropolis does have someredeeming qualities. Staged at theVancouver East Cultural Centre, a remark-ably cozy theatre divided into two sec-tions—floor and balcony—the set immedi-ately draws in, the audience. A giant pyra-mid, inscribed with symbols such as a non-smoking sign and a pharaoh in a businesssuit sits in the center of the stage.Electronic music plays as the audienceenters, The result is an absorbing blend ofthe contemporary and the classic. In addi-tion, since Necropolis was written by alocal playwright Vancouver in-jokes aboutwell-known people, local landmarks, and(of course) the rain, amuse the audience.

The Yorick theatre company achieved itsgoal of getting the audience to turn off theTV and come see a play. And presumablythis was no easy task, since MacKay saysthat technology has an evil hold over theminds of everyone.

Despite the limitations of the plot andcharacters, it was an enjoyable play, al/ow-ing for time to reflect upon the evils of cap-italism and laugh at amusing Vancouverreferences. As light satire, Necropolisappeals to the socialist anti-technologicalself in all of us.

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HOW TO KNOW GODby Deepak ChopraHarmony Books

With all the self-help books on the market these days, I suppose it takessomething special to attract attention. The ambitious premise of DeepakChopra's How to Know God certainly does that.

Deepak definitely had his hands full with me—a confirmed agnostic.Like many people, I've always thought the existence of God to be unknow-able. At the same time, there have been moments when I felt somethingwas missing from my life.

In this book, Chopra's logical approach to spirituality makes it much eas-ier for sceptics such as myself to read on. Chopra talks about a. "RealitySandwich' where the lower slice of bread represents the material world,the middle portion of the sandwich represents the transition zone (wheremiracles occur and where God's energy can be felt), and, finally, the topslice of bread represents God (I doubt this is what Allen Ginsberg had inmind).

The many examples Chopra cites in the book really helpedme to see God in a new way. He also uses the Reality Sandwichconcept to explain physics—the lower slice represents thematerial reality, the middle portion of the sandwich repre-sents the quantum reality, and top piece is the virtual reali-ty. In another chapter, Chopra discusses what he calls the'Seven Responses of the Human Brain and the SevenLevels of Fulfillment, which measure how one sees God.Level One means that you see God as &parent, whileLevel Seven means that achieving unity with God is God.

A lot of what Chopra says makes sense, and the tran-sition zone of the Reality Sandwich concept certainlymakes God seem more real. How to Know God offersa unique and successful blend of spirituality and sci-ence that will satisfy atheists, agnostics, and reli-gious people alike.

—Tom Abbott

The Rest of the FestFLEETING PASSAGE TO THE ORIENTplayed at the Vancouver InternationalFilm Festival

'The past is a foreign country,' says the narra-tor of Fleeting Passage to the Orient anAustrian film framed around the Egyptiantravels of the Empress Elizabeth.

The movie opens with a blurry view from atrain window of snow-covered land. The move-ment of the train is brought abruptly to a haltin the next frame as the camera follows thelulling waves of a boat. A hand moves intoview holding the black-and-white photo of aproud woman.

Filmmaker Ruth Beckermann recounts thestory of Elizabeth's travels through Egypt inthe 1880's. The documentary follows theempress' path from modern-day Cairo toAlexandria.

Beckermann's film juxtaposes the histori-cal and the modern, as it explores the diversi-ty of Egypt—a man smoking a cigarette on ahot dry day, the streets full of modernity butshowing cracks of history, and the shiftingdesert sands. The viewer gains a sense of con-tradiction and harmony simultaneously in theconflicting images.

The female narrator's somewhat dissonantvoice distances the audience from what is onthe screen. As she speaks of Elizabeth's hopesand desires, and her character as perceived bythe dignitaries she met on her journey, theaudience is engaged in an exchange with agroup of aggressive spice sellers.

Though it is difficult to listen to the storyand participate in what is going on onscreen,sometimes the dissonance seems to work—asshe describes Elizabeth's loneliness, anddetails her death, the camera pans across apalace whose former splendour was evidentin the desolate, empty rooms and bare chan-deliers.

The lens is always moving, probing, to thepoint where the images become mottled andbegin to run into each other. Similarly, theideas also begin to bleed into each other.While a kind of interaction is established, theviewer leaves feeling dazed and less clear ofthe film's exact message.

But despite this feeling of alienation, thereis a vague sense of being enlightened.Although not exactly a riveting film, FleetingPassage to the Orient does present some inter-esting points—about travel,' the connectionbetween the past and the present, and thesense of alienation and belonging in a foreignland.

An air of myth and mystery pervades thefinal scene, and the audience, too, after seeing

through Beckermann's lens, feels as if the pastis a foreign country—not necessarily to beliked, but to be explored as a map ofourselves. •:"

—Jennifer Chen

...AND THE RIVER FLOWSplayed at the Vancouver InternationalFilm Festival

Directed by Jahnu Barua, ...And the RiverFlows is a lyrical tale that follows the life ofPokhi, an orphaned girl who lives with heraunt and uncle in the village of Assam innortheast India.

Living,in striking poverty, Pokhi has to bepulled out of school to helpher aunt out at home. Shealso spends countlesshours at the river thatflows by her village, eithernapping or just thinking.At one point she nurses awounded bird back tohealth and lets it free onceit is better.

Although Pokhi is the central figure, thefilm revolves around the character ofDayananda, the unpopular shopkeeper andmoney-lender who charges a 70 per cent inter-est rate. His wife, Aita, is a gentle, caring ladyloved by all, especially Pokhi. When Pokhi'saunt and uncle decide to move to the city, Aitais more than happy to adopt Pokhi. Pokhibecomes even more attached to her once theydecide to reform the old man of his greedyhabits, but Pokhi becomes devastated whenAita suddenly dies and is left alone withDayananda.

Even worse, Dayananda gets caught up insuperstitions, calling Pokhi a witch who isbringing bad luck to his household. Pokhi'sworld is shattered as she tries to find answersin her life. However, she manages to open theold man's eyes as he realises his faults andaccepts her. In the touching last scene Pokhisucceeds in changing this man.

This moral story shows innocence of lifethrough a little girl's eyes, while teaching anold man a lesson in life. Though hoping itwould be a little more dramatic, this filmshows Barua's artistic talent in this powerfultale which leaves the audience thinking aboutachieving simplicity rather than complexity intheir lives. +

—Parm Johal

WHAT ABOUT ME: THE RISE OF THENIHILIST SPASM BANDplayed at the Vancouver InternationalFilm Festival

"We are one of the best bands in the world.Most bands are awful.' So say the NihilistSpasm Band.

Based on the story of a noise band fromLondon, Ontario, What About Me: The Riseof the Nihilist Spasm Band documents thegroup's meteoric ascension from Canadianobscurity to international unknown. After35 years of bringing noise to the world, adocumentary about the band that believesin nothing ('Nothing is Forever') seemswell deserved.

Indeed, the band has had quite a past.Starting back in the '60s, the band has

made many of its owninstruments (hence the'spasm"). They are knownas pioneers of noise music,a genre that has now spreadall over the world, becom-ing, and is especially popu-lar in Japan where theNihilist Spasm Band areregarded as gods.

The Nihilist Spasm Band's doctrine ofnoise and louder noise is meant to questionmusic and order in general. However, thisdoes not mean they are all serious artistes.The main element to the band and this sub-sequent rockumentary is humour. Manytimes, Art tends to take itself too seriously.

However, with What About Me, Zev Asherand the Nihilist Spasm Band are able to suc-cessfully overcome this folly. Having sat infront of two of the band members at thefilm's screening and listening to them cack-le through the whole thing, I can truthfullysay this documentary has successfully por-trayed the band and its ideas.

What at first appeared to be a seriousdocumentary about one of music's doursubgenres turned out to be a very entertain-ing film about a hilarious band. All hail the"Uncles of Punk Rock.'

—Jessica-Ann Dozois

ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBERplayed at the Vancouver InternationalFilm Festival

In beautiful orangey-brown 1970s tech-nicolour, Munich advertises that its 1972Olympics will be everything the 1936

Berlin Olympics was not, promising laxsecurity, no political platforms, and a per:,vading serenity. "Willkommenr flashes abubbly sign against a background of jovialbeer sloshers.

But Kevin MacDonald's Oscar-winningdocumentary is anything but serene 30minutes later—Black September, the terror-ist group that held 11 Israeli athleteshostage at the Munich Games before killingthem in a panic spurred by an inept rescueattempt. Good intentions, it seems, paved,atwisted road to hell.

MacDonald's film is a study in effectivecontrast. Using interviews and archivalfootage, he juxtaposes the supposed bestand worst of humanity with incredibleimpact and clarity. He uses Olympicfootage, capturing the fluid gracefulness oftrack and field athletes before switching tothe clumsiness of both police and captors.

He shows the sunbathers who lie lessthan a block away from the hostages, thecarnival-like atmosphere of the huge crowdsthat congregated there later, and the gamesthat continued for the sake of appearances.

A more subtle contrast appears in thelighting choice for the individual inter-views. The people connected with the ill-fated rescue mission are framed against abackground of pale, cold blue. Family mem-bers of athletes are filmed against vividsplashes of colour. Al Jayed, the one surviv-ing member of Black September is filmedagainst shady blue, with shadows, partly toobscure his identity. -

Despite MacDonald's incredible workand research for this documentary, it isAnke Spitzer, the wife of a murdered fenc-ing coach, who makes the film powerful,bringing to it compassion and rawness. Shedeftly side-steps fatalism, even when talkingabout the day she said goodbye to her hus-band, how he missed the train that wouldtake him to Munich and the hostages, andhow she remembers running alongside thetrain,

Most poignantly, Spitzer tells of her hus-band's pride upon entering the stadium of acountry that, 30 years before, was home to aman who wanted all Jews eradicated. Hermemories of her young marriage, whichshe calls 'the best time of my life,' are whatmake One Day in September work. Spitzerprovides balance with a grief that humanis-es the tragedy. A humanity that is so oftenlacking in documentary representations offacts and numbers. +

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The successful applicant will be a creative self-starter, familiar with campus life.Working under the supervision of the AMS President, the coordinator isexpected to commit 10-15 hours per week from October 23, 2000 – April 2001.

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STARDOMplayed at the VancouverInternational Film Festivalopens everywhere Oct. 27

Andy Warhol once said that in the futureeverybody will be famous for 15 minutes.Denys Arcand's new film Stardom looksat those 15 minutes for a beautiful youngmodeL

The film follows the young TinaMenzhal (Jessica Pare) from small-towngirl to world fame after a local photogra-pher spots her at a hockey practice.

Tina's career as a supermodel on therunways of Paris and New York is caughtby hundreds of different TV cameras.Tina appears on talk shows and com-mercials, and at opening galas and photoshoots.

Along the way, she also becomes thesubject of a documentary filmed byBruce Taylor (Robert LePage). With herincreasing stardom, the media taps intoher private life and leaves not a singleaspect of her life unexplored.

Tina's father, who abandoned Tina'sfamily years ago, appears on a talk show.Private bedroom footage of Tina and ex-boyfriend photographer Philippe(Charles Berling) gets its own art galleryopening. And her dope-addicted friendToni (Camilla Rutherford), a former top-model herself, vents her jealousies on aJerry Springer-like talk-show.

Tina also begins several self-destric-

tive relationships with men who are allold enough to be her father. None ofthese escapes the media's attention. Atthe end of the two-hour film, you feel likeyou've just watched a year's worth oftrash 'IV, which seems to be what the filmattempts to do.

Although Stardom first appears to bea superficial film about a superficialtopic, it actually plays out on a deeperlevel.

Stardom is a thoughtful comment onour fame-obsessed culture. It asks, 'Whydo we know so much about the lives ofCindy Crawford and Kate Moss?'Stardom draws our attention to thepower of beauty, and the even-strongerpower of the media.

Arcand projects his own image as afilmmaker onto the character of BruceTaylor, whose documentary tries to get atthe real Tina Menzhal. But this is wherethe film starts to weaken. Throughout thefilm, only Bruce gives Tina the chance toexpress herself She is either cut off inmid-sentence or she is asked highlysuperficial questions, which never allowsTina's character to develop.

But Arcand makes a strong statementabout us—the viewer. The audience com-plies with the authority of the media, par-ticipating willingly to establish, raise andnurture a star, only to abandon that verysame person soon afterwards. 4.

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Denys Arcand turnsStardom into success

by Aisha Jamal

The name Denys Arcand maymean nothing to most people, butto film buffs the name is synony-mous with great Canadian film-making (and, yes, such a thingdoes exist).

His two most acclaimed films,Jesus de Montreal and Le Declinde l'empire americaln, werenominated for Academy Awardsfor Best Foreign Language Film.Jesus won the Prix du Jury and LeDeclin won the Fipresci award atthe Cannes International FilmFestival.

Arcand's latest film, Stardom,a provocative film about ourfame-obsessed culture, not onlyplayed at this year's closing galaat Cannes, but also at this year'sanniversary gala at theVancouver International FilmFestival.

Arcand's love for film devel-oped when he was young. wentto the theatres six days a weekwhen I was younger,' he says.saw absolutely everything, fromKurosawa to Bergman andFellini.'

But Arcand never thoughthe'd be a director. 'I studied his-tory at university in Montreal,'Arcand explains. was into the-atre and I was considered a goodactor and acting coach. The filmguys would bring me in to workwith the actors, to coach them. Iwasn't interested in cameras,'

However, Arcand ended upworking, as a documentary film-maker in the '60s. "I made docu-mentaries for ten years beforemaking a feature,' he says.'Everyone was surprised whenthey saw the film, and asked,'You made that?'

Since then, Arcand has beenmaking both feature films anddocumentaries, calling himselfone of the lucky ones to be mak-ing films at all. 'Filmmaking is afascinating job. I wouldn't trade

' it for anything,' he says.'Each film is like a PhD thesis.

It's engulfing and you immerseyourself in something you arepassionate about for four years.Where else can you do thisrepeatedly?'

Arcand took seven years torelease his latest film, Stardom.Arcand admits to being a veryslow writer and a very detailed

researcher. 'I knew I was goingto make a film about a beautifulgirl 15 years ago.' Arcandexplains.

'I say in the film that a prettygirl is a subspecies of the humanrace. I started with this idea andI started to fill notebooks andfiles. I did specific research for ayear and a half. I wrote a firstdraft of about 500 pages and Iobviously had to cut it down.'

Stardom is the first English-speaking film he has written.knew it would be an expensivefilm because I wanted to shoot inParis, London, and New York.These places are not cheap and Ican't just shoot them in my back-yard. I needed to show some ofthe places. I knew I needed more

than Quebec could give me.Quebec money is $4 million andI definitely needed more.'

So, Arcand sought the higherbudget and studio backing ofAlliance-Atlantis. This also meantsome sacrifices.

'I was given a list of actors. Icouldn't just take any guy off thestreet, which I usually do,' heexplains. 'So I said okay, DanAkroyd is fine, Frank Langella isokay. The actors I chose had to beon that list It was a lot morepressure than I am used to.'

Since the film was his first fea-ture in seven years, there wasconsiderable pressure for him tosucceed.

'Right now, everyone is happywith me. When we came out ofCannes, everyone was happy tosee me. They were approachingme and asking, 'Do you haveanother project? Come talk tome.' Because Stardom sells.'

The film has been sold to allmajor world markets and isscheduled to be released acrossCanada on October 27. Stardom,however, has been receivingmixed reviews.

'It's not a raging success likeJesus of Montreal where every-one who saw it said it was a mas-terpiece,' he says.

'This film is a lot more con-troversial. A lot of people hate it,especially writers. With this filmthere is no middle ground. Eitherpeople say it's a piece a shit fromthe first frame to the last, or peo-ple love it'

Nevertheless, Arcand isproud of his film. `I try to makefilms I would seS, than I wouldfind interesting.: he says. 'Inthose terms, Stardom is a suc-cess.' •.

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Still too soon to expect Balkan peaceWhen the people of Serbia took tothe streets to prevent SlobodanMilosevic from stealing lastmonth's Yugoslavian presidentialelection, they took a stand againstautocracy. They may also havemarked an end to a decade markedby turmoil and isolation in theBalkans.

But though it might look like ademocratic state is emerging out ofa former dictatorship, Yugoslavia,and president-elect VojislavKostunica, still have a long way togo before the region can claimpeace and stability. The Yugoslaveconomy, for example, is in sham-bles from years of economic sanc-tions and isolationist policies, andthe decade-long civil war that crip-pled the region. As well, Serbiannationalism will outlast its currentfigurehead, and continue to shaperelationships between the neigh-bouring republics.

In some respects, things arelooking up. Canada has lifted a ban

A lesson inadvertising ethics

On the back cover of last week'sissue of the Ubyssey, a youngwoman gives a 'lesson in style' inrelationships with a knowing lookand the text: 'no one remembershow you arrive. It's how you leave.'Ironically, the same might be saidfor this advertisement. No onenoticed when it arrived but itneeds to leave immediately, withas much fanfare as possible.

This is an illegal ad for a pre-scription drug—a birth control pill.I and other students and facultymembers at UBC have asked theUbyssey to pull the ad. FerniePereira, the UbysseY s businessmanager, contacted the agencyinvolved, Anderson Advertising,who assured him the ad wasapproved by Advertising StandardsCanada.

This is very odd. AdvertisingStandards Canada oversees adver-tising of over-the-counter drugs—medicines you can buy directlyfrom a drugstore without a doc-tor's prescription. They don't havethe mandate to oversee prescrip-tion drug advertising, because pre-scription drug advertising to thepublic is not allowed in Canada.

Like all industrialised countriesexcept the United States and NewZealand, Canada forbids prescrip-tion drug advertising to the publicfor safety reasons. If a medicine is

on investment in and exports toYugoslavia, and the EU lifted its oilembargo. This weekend's resigna-tion of top Yugoslav officials alignedwith Milosevic, including the for-mer prime minister and theregion's most powerful police chief,has fuelled the burgeoning democ-racy movement

Kostunica, meanwhile, will beholding a national ballot inDecember to loosen the grip ofMilosevic supporters in the Serbianparliament

The democratic movement clear-ly favours these changes, but it isn'tstrong enough yet to break downyears of entrenched cultural hostili-ties. The uprising that toppled theMilosevic regime did not miracu-lously erase the divisions plaguingthe region.

It is unlikely that Kostunica, aSerb nationalist who bitterlyopposed NATO intervention inKosovo, and who believes that therepublic of Montenegro must

considered hazardous enough tobe sold only with a doctor's pre-scription, companies are notallowed to promote it to the public.

By definition, advertising aimsto sell a product. It cannot deliverimpartial or balanced information.Birth control information is greatto have. An ad that shouts at you,'buy this product and be cool' isnot birth control information.

It doesn't tell you how this pillcompares to other birth controlpills in effectiveness, safety, every-day side-effects or cost. (Yes, it'sone of the most expensive pills onthe market) It doesn't tell you howthe birth control pill compares toother methods or help you to sortout what method best meets yourneed to protect yourself bothagainst pregnancy and STDs,including HIV/AIDS.

Canada's Food and Drugs Actallows one small exception to thegeneral ban on advertising pre-scription drugs directly to the pub-lic, section C.01.044 of the regula-tions:

'Where a person advertises tothe general public a Schedule F(prescription-only] drug, the per-son shall not make any representa-tion other than with respect to thebrand name, proper name, com-mon name, price and quantity ofthe drug.'

This is a very limited exception,introduced in 1978 so pharmacistscould post drug prices. Does the

Alesse ad contain representations'other than name, price andquantity? The Alesse ad has:- an image of a young woman;- emotive advertising text- an image of the 21-day birth con-trol pill blister pack;- a suggestion to 'ask your doctor.'

These are all representationsother than name, price andquantity.

Wyeth-Ayerst is a US-based com-pany. Should it be flouting both thespirit and the letter of Canadianlaw? Should it be targeting a vul-nerable group, young women, whoare seeking birth control for thefirst time and may easily find com-parative information on price orquality of the various productsavailable?

I work with a national coalitionof women's health groups, theWorking Group on Women andHealth Protection. We wrote toAllan Rock in May, asking HealthCanada to pull these ads when theyfirst appeared on MuchMusic.Health Canada has been slow toenforce the law. In . September wereceived a letter back saying they'will investigate the information(we] have provided.' Meanwhilethe advertising campaign contin-ues.

As UBC students, faculty andemployees, we need to send astrong message to Health Canadato enforce the law. We need to letWyeth-Ayerst and other drug comb..

Montenegran leaders, mean-while, still do not recogniseKostunica as the new president,instead calling him a representativeof Serbian politics.

This weekend, the Kostunica gov-ernment began efforts to puncturethe image of Milosevic as the leaderof the Serbian people. A documen-tary was aired showing less aspectsof Milosevies regime never beforebroadcast in Serbia—including theshelling of Dubrovnik, the emaciat-ed inmates of Bosnian detentioncamps, snipers picking off citizensof Sarajevo, and the mass graves ofKosovar Albanians. effective, but itmay also incite new ethnic tensions.

Yugoslavia's history virtuallyensures that the new democracywill be far from perfect But at leastwithout Milosevic in the way, thehatred between neighbouring stateswill have a chance to subside, and,with a little cooperation andaccommodation, maybe even besupplanted. •

panies know that if they are oper-ating in Canada, they shouldrespect Canada's laws, and thatillegal advertising of prescriptiondrugs will not be tolerated. Mostimportantly, our student newspa-per should not be running the ads.

—Barbara MintzesPhD student

Department of Health Careand Epidemiology

A NOTE FROM THE UBYSSEYBUSINESS OFFiCE:

The Alesse advertising messageis not illegal. Following standardprocess, Wyeth-Ayerst and AndersonAdvertising submitted the ads forpre-clearance to AdvertisingStandards Canada, which, along withthe Pharmaceutical AdvertisingAdvisory Board, has been delegatedthe temporary role by the HealthProtection Branch of Health Canadaof providing advice to marketers onconsumer ads for prescriptiondruig.

The advertising is in compli-ance with Advertising StandardsCanada, and the Commissioner atthe Pharmaceutical AdvertisingAdvisory Board is quoted in a cur-rent issue of Marketing Magazineas saying '...they met the require-ments of the law.'

Health Canada is currentlyreviewing the campaign.

remain part of the Yugoslav federa-tion, will bring lasting peace to theregion

Kostunica said this week that theunity of the Yugoslav federation iscrucial, vowing never to surrenderKosovo or allow the secession ofMontenegro. Yet he also says that heis willing to negotiate with the lead-

' ers of these regions.So far, the Serbian democratic

movement has shown the will of theSerbian people. But what about theethnic Albanians and theMontenegrans who also make upYugoslavia?

Over the weekend, fears of inter-communal violence in Kosovoincreased. Ethnic Albanians in theprovince have sensed the weaknessin the Serbian leadership. The lead-ers of Kosovo's two largest politicalparties have already refused opendialogue with Kostunica. They willlikely capitalise on this period ofinstability to claim their independ-ence.

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16 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2000 CULTURE

UBC and the GVRD have jointlydrafted a new Memorandum ofUnderstanding to help guide theplanning and development of theUBC campus, within the contextof the Official Community Planwhich the GVRD adopted in 1997.

In addition, UBC has prepared aComprehensive Community Planto give more detailed expressionto the Official Community Planand to guide the preparation ofneighbourhood plans.The GVRD invites you to come tothis meeting, learn about theseimportant documents, and offeryour comments before they arebrought forward to the GVRDBoard of Directors forconsideration.

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and lend the support of its memberschools to Newscorp's subsidiary,TSL Education, a United-Kingdom-based education publisher, whichwould design and administer thecourses.

The for-profit nature of thealliance has some people question-ing the necessity of Universitas'approach to online education.

Zaenker said that online educa-tion; should never replace a tradi-tional four-year degree.

'A lot of what one gains frompost-secondary education is the con-tact between your professor and stu-dents and the collegial atmospherein which learning takes place,' shesaid. 'I think online learning can inno way replicate that environment'

But Robinson defended the move,explaining that traditional universi-ties such as UBC are now facingincreasing demand for'online educa-tion.

'There are a lot of people whodon't want to spend four years goingto a traditional brick-and-mortarschool and [traditional universities]might not have the capacity to pro-vide people with alternative service,'he said. 'I think it's necessary foruniversities to adapt, and quickly.'

Robinson said that such compa-nies as Newscorp have' more experi-ence with the online marketplacethan do universities, and could helpthe schools compete in an area

where they normally 'would nothave the muscle.'

UBC's Universitas 21 liasonMichael Goldberg further stated thatUniversitas 21 helps increase itsmember universities' leverage inthe global marketplace.

'Our partnership withUniversitas 21 allows us to experi-ment in areas where we may not beable to focus our attention normal-ly,' said Goldberg.

But according to William Koty,the director of Internet studies atUBC's Continuing Studies branch,the demand for online education isstill unclear.

He said that while some indus-try experts estimate the market foronline learning is substantial at bil-lions of dollars per year, 'a lot ofthe online e-commerce companiesalso believe there is going to be thishuge market of consumers andobviously it hasn't materialised.With online education, it could bethe same way.'

In the case that there is a marketfor this type of education, Koty said,'I would say the university ismorally responsible to help fulfillthat demand.'

McGill University and theUniversity of Toronto are the twoother Canadian participants inUniversitas 21, which was formedin 1997 with the intention of pur-suing 'agendas that would bebeyond [the universities'] individ-ual capacities.' +

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